How To Create a Million-Dollar Business In a Weekend: Noah Kagan | Online Business Models | Scoop.it

Excerpted from the article: "Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. 


Mr. Noah has quite the start-up resume.

He was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint, had previously worked for Intel (where he frequently took naps under his desk), and had turned down a six-figure offer from Yahoo.


...Noah’s helped create Gambit, an online gaming payment platform and a multi-million dollar business; and AppSumo, loved by entrepreneurs and moms everywhere...


The purpose of this post is simple: to teach you how to get a $1,000,000 business idea off the ground in one weekend, full of specific tools and tricks that Noah has used himself.


He will be your guide…"


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"I’m going to suggest is that you start with a much simpler essence of your product over the course of a weekend, rather than wasting time building something for weeks… only to discover no one wants it."


Here the key steps:


Step 1: Find your (profitable) idea


Step 2: Find $1,000,000 worth of customers


Step 3: Assess your customer’s value


Step 4: Validate your idea


Read the full article (full examples and references) here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/09/24/how-to-create-a-million-dollar-business-this-weekend-examples-appsumo-mint-chihuahuas/ 


(Curated by Robin Good)